18Synonyms found for flipper

Word Origin & History

flip 1590s, possibly imitative; or a contraction of fillip (q.v.), which also is held to be imitative. Sense of "get excited" is first recorded 1950; flip one's lid "lose one's head, go wild" is from 1951. For flip (adj.) "glib," see flippant. Related: Flipped. Flipping (adj.) as euphemism for fucking is British slang first recorded 1911 in D.H. Lawrence.

Example Sentences for flipper

On the other hand, the slender bones of the skull and flipper suggest a more graceful profile.

The bumps on a whale's flipper help form vortices that generate more lift, more smoothly.

Cook the flipper with bone in to lend extra goodness.

The bumps on a humpback's flipper prevent the beast from stalling as it turns.

If all else fails or you're not the flipper, choose the side that starts facing up.

The flipper armed henchman is not holding a mace or standing next to the file cabinet.

He measured the specimen and collected and froze the head, one flipper and the flukes.

It starts the moment that the lowliest burger-flipper joins up.

The alleged flipper was photographed in different positions, indicating movement.